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Better Care Models Needed for Young Adults With Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Obesity drugs were not utilized often in young adults and adolescents despite high complication rates, prompting researchers to call for chronic, holistic care. Obesity in children and young adults is associated with the early development of several obesity-related complications,” wrote Theresa Hunter Gibble, PhD , and colleagues.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery. times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78 Also, limited life expectancy increases the likelihood of complications from most procedures, including radiation therapy. in 2000 to 59.8%

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. Laboratory diagnosis and treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children: a review. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 68:13. Gao L, Sun Y.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Lymphoma D.

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Factors Associated with Annual Vision Screening in Diabetic Adults: Analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with? I threw out a lot.

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